Today is Thursday, Sept. 29, the 273rd day of 2016. There are 93 days left in the year.

Today’s birthdays: Conductor Richard Bonynge is 86. Director Robert Benton is 84. Singer Jerry Lee Lewis is 81. Senator Bill Nelson, Democrat of Florida, is 74. Actor Ian McShane is 74. Jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty is 74. Nobel Peace laureate Lech Walesa is 73. Composer Mike Post is 72. TV personality Bryant Gumbel is 68. Journalist Gwen Ifill is 61. Olympic gold medal runner Sebastian Coe is 60. Singer Suzzy Roche is 60. Comedian Andrew ‘‘Dice’’ Clay is 59. Actor Roger Bart is 54.

In 1789, the War Department established a regular army.

In 1938, British, French, German, and Italian leaders concluded the Munich Agreement, which allowed the Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland.

In 1976, the Hancock Tower was dedicated in the Back Bay, five years later than scheduled.

In 1978, Pope John Paul I was found dead in his apartment a month after becoming head of the Roman Catholic Church.

In 1982, Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide claimed the first of seven victims in Illinois. (The case remains unsolved.)

In 1986, the Soviet Union released Nicholas Daniloff, an American journalist confined on spying charges.

In 2006, Rhode Island nightclub owner Michael Derderian was sentenced to four years in prison and his brother, Jeffrey, to probation under a plea agreement, angering relatives of the 100 people who had died in a 2003 fire at The Station.

Last year, City of Boston filed lawsuit to block casino in Everett. A judge dismissed the suit in December.